Product Description: Excerpt from Henry Irving, Actor and Manager: A Critical StudyThe future biographer of Mr. Henry Irving will probably have to close with the autumn of 1883 one period of his hero's career. The third period it may be called, if we reckon Mr...read more

A detailed investigation of strategic management in the context of globalization and competitiveness. Provides an integrated approach, but firm-based theory of strategic management is stressed throughout. Case studies included. Softcover.

Product Description: Readers will be in awe when they learn about the fastest sofa in the world and the world's longest recorded burp. Containing dozens of incredible photos and fun trivia facts, The World's Craziest Records gives young readers a look at some of the most incredible records ever achieved...read more

Product Description: Mary Kingston, presenter with RTE's Disney Club, travels the world and brings us her Fantastic Far-Flung Facts for Fun. Her journey begins in Africa with fantastic facts about reptiles, including tortoises and chameleons, and animals such as lemurs and cheetahs...read more

Provides an introduction to financial management, focusing on shareholder wealth maximization and cash flow management, the international aspects of financial management, the ethical behavior of managers, and the increased impact of the Internet in business practice.

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This volume of the Handbook adds five new chapters to the science of rare earths. Two of the chapters deal with intermetallic compounds. An overview of ternary systems containing rare earths, transition metals and indium – Chapter 218 – opens the volume. It is followed by Chapter 219 sorting out relationships between superconductivity and magnetism. The next two chapters are dedicated to complex compounds of rare earths: Chapter 220 describes structural studies using circularly polarized luminescence spectroscopy of lanthanide systems, while Chapter 221 examines rare-earth metal-organic frameworks, also known as coordination polymers. The final Chapter 222 deals with the catalytic activity of rare earths in site-selective hydrolysis of DNA and RNA.

Product Description: Even more fascinating and bizarre facts to excite and entertain young readers! How to talk like a pirate . . . which snakes can eat a 6-foot crocodile . . . whose favorite food is caterpillar milk . . . who holds the world record for the loudest burp ...read more

Product Description: People are funny--and so are many animals when they're encouraged by their human keepers! Here's a tour of the weird and wacky side of life around the world, with surprises and laughs for older boys and girls. They'll read about people with unusual bodies, including the tallest and the shortest, as well as the man with the most tattoos, a woman with the longest fingernails, an 80-year-old body builder, and a studs-and-rings-decorated woman who calls herself The Human Pincushion...read more

Product Description: With all of the books in the world, this one is the best! With a multitude of did-you-knows, accompanied by hilarious illustrations, page after page is packed with the best entertainment and education. For kids craving to jam their brains with odd and intriguing facts, here's a banquet—stuffed with the fastest, brightest, longest, funniest, weirdest, wildest, wettest, smelliest, brainiest, and fascinating-est things in the world...read more

Product Description: Part of the dynamic reading programme Project X, this book is truly boy-friendly. Project X is a reading programme that has been developed based on research into what will really hook boys into reading and make them love books. Project X includes fiction and non-fiction, exciting adventure stories, lots of gadgets, and 21st-century illustrations...read more

Product Description: Part of the dynamic reading programme Project X, this book is truly boy-friendly. Project X is a reading programme that has been developed based on research into what will really hook boys into reading and make them love books. Project X includes fiction and non-fiction, exciting adventure stories, lots of gadgets, and 21st-century illustrations...read more

Product Description: Did ancient Egyptians really fly airplanes? Are ancient tombs always booby-trapped? Explore great mysteries then read "Doorway to Demons."

Product Description: From strange disappearances, to legendsurban and otherwisethis book presents the fascinating stories of an often unexplainable world.

Product Description: Discover fascinating facts and figures about the tiniest things in the world! From the smallest country to the teeniest mobile phone, find out what makes it into the smallest top ten ever.

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Product Description: Discover fascinating facts and figures about the biggest things in the world! From an enormous food fight to gigantic plants and massive ferris wheels, find out what makes it into the top 10 biggest.